*** This giveaway is now closed – see who won below! ***
After 10,000 interesting name origin stories, random.org has selected our winners as… Beth (who says “my dad picked it out and to this day I’m whole heartily a daddy’s girl.”) and Chelsea (who’s name story is: “My parents got my name from the 1981 movie, On Golden Pond. ‘Chelsea’ was played by Jane Fonda”) Congrats!
I realize from the name Online Fabric Store, you might have trouble guessing what this online store sells, so allow me to solve that mystery for ya. Fabric! And seemingly every kind of fabric – like upholstery, decor, quilting, apparel and even garden fabric. Which means that this week’s two winners (who are each getting $250 to spend there) could tackle anything from sewing some pillow covers or making a duvet to redoing the curtains in an entire room. And the cool thing about their system is that the more yardage you buy, the cheaper each yard gets – and once you get over that $50 mark, your shipping in the US is free.
- PRIZE: A $250 gift card to Online Fabric Store
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “FABRIC ME!” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: …what’s the meaning behind your name? Does it carry some special significance within your family? Or is there a cool story behind how your parents picked it? Have you always wished it was something else?
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: Two
- PRIZE SHIPS: Wahoo, this giveaway is available worldwide!
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here on Thursday for the announcement of our winners. Good luck…
- ***COMMENT ISSUES? If you’re trying to enter but keep getting a “duplicate comment” warning, click here to see how to solve it!
Note: We aren’t paid or perked for hosting these giveaways, we just do ‘em to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQ page for more info. Pics courtesy of Online Fabric Store.
Monica says
FABRIC ME!!
My family is from a small southern town. My mom wanted to name me Monique, but was afraid everyone would call me Mon-i-q, so instead she went with Monica. Had I been one of a set of twin girls, I would have been either Yvonne or Yvette. Sounds like maybe she was a Francophile at that age!
Natasha R. says
Fabric me! My mom really liked the name Natasha when she heard it in the early ’80s and when I came along a few years later (after both parents were told they’d never have kids) it was a name they thought fit the situation, since it means a gift from the gods. I have always loved my name, since no one else in my school even had a name close to it.
Jordan Dunaway says
FABRIC ME!
My dad chose my first name based off of an actress in a movie he had recently seen. And my mom chose my middle name by naming me after her older sister. So I became Jordan Andrea.
Meghan says
FABRIC ME!
My name has no special meaning; my parents just liked it. They did however add the “h” for Meghan since a couple down the hall in the hospital had just named their child Megan. I guess they didn’t want us confused or something…
Deese says
FABRIC ME!!!
I am an fairly good seamstress and love me some great fabric. I’ve been buying vintage 1920s-60s patterns and need more awesome fabric to make them come to life!
My name is a nickname given to me by one of my baby cousins because she couldn’t say Denise. Strangely nearly 13 years since my renaming that little girl is the only person that calls me Denise! Deese has just stuck…and it’s way more “me” apparently. I was named after one of my moms high school friends she was the only Denise my mom had met and she liked the name…my mom fully embraced my nickname, she has called me Deese nearly half my life!
Ashley says
FABRIC ME!
My name has no special meaning, but I used to wish I had a different one when I was a kid, as there were always mulitple people in my classes with the same name. One year there were 6 girls all with my name in one class…….I definatly did not name my kids anything off of the top 100 names.
Stacy says
“FABRIC ME!” Nothing special behind my name, my parents just liked it.
Katy says
FABRIC ME!
I always thought my name was a form of my aunt’s nickname… but it’s not! My parents just liked my first name. They couldn’t think of a middle name though, so my mom went through her entire work directory and found a name to pair with my first name.
Beth says
FABRIC ME! I don’t think my name has that much of a meaning, but I do know that my parents wanted to call me Elizabeth instead of Beth, but a neighbor had an Elizabeth about 4 weeks before I was born! Hence, I became Beth. A few times when starting new jobs I’ve tried to “become” Elizabeth, but it just never sticks! LOL!
Tara says
FABRIC ME… I’m Tara Leigh!! I’m named after a soap star in the 70’s and my uncle is Terry Lee. I really am just Tara and I have always loved my middle name so much I named one of my daughters Harleigh. :)
I never wanted a different name, just wanted mine pronounced correctly, Tear-a vs Tar-a
Melissa Gray says
FABRIC ME!
My name as well as all of my sisters were picked by our Dad from daytime soaps that my Mom and him used to watch before we were all born.
Dani says
Fabric me!
Ive never asked where or why my parents named me Dani. Its always been annoying because so man people say it wrong… its just like the boy but spelled different. As a kid, I wanted a different name, but never came up with anything great to change it to. I couldn’t picture being any name other than Dani now :)
laurie kim says
fabric me! please!
My dad wanted to name me Loretta, after his fave country singer Loretta Lynn. My mom said no. Laurie was the compromise. :)
Mari-ann says
FABRIC ME!!!!
My mom prayed to the Virgin Mary for me…So I am named Mari!
Thanh says
Fabric Me! My name means blue and growing up as a minority in a predominantly Irish/Italian town there was always moments when I wished for a more common “vanilla” name. Not so much now… I pride myself on being slightly different. That’s what made my hubby fall madly in love with me! :-)
Amanda Stuff says
Fabric me! My middle name is the same as my grandfather’s
Ali A says
Fabric me!
My mom agonized over my name for months before choosing, and then gave me “Ann” as my middle name simply because it looked nice in a monogram with two A’s surrounding my last initial. I’ve always found it hysterical that one name took forever but the second was just because it looked nice.
Amelia says
Fabric ME!
I am named after my Great Grandma.
Phyllis says
Fabric me! My name goes by the meanings. My maiden name was Hardy. So…the meanings of Phyllis Erika Hardy all put together? A strong little white flower on a green branch! My sisters was a strong white mountain flower. I know…kinda geeky!
Rita says
FABRIC ME!! I was named after my moms sister that died from cancer before i was born.
Casey says
FABRIC ME! My name has no special meaning, I’m honestly not sure how it was picked. In fact…I’m the only one it my family that wasn’t name after somebody.
Jamie says
Fabric me!!! I was named after the Bionic Woman.
Stephanie says
Fabric Me! I have no fun cool story but if I did, it wouldmatch approx. a gazillion other stories from the same year…
Heather H says
Fabric me! Always wished my name was more unusual…think every other girl I went to school with was Heather or Michele (middle name)…
Suzie says
FABRIC ME!
My Mom asked her sister to come up with a list of boys’ names and girls’s names when she was pregnant. So my aunt and her friend (who were in high school at the time) wrote up a list of names on a lined sheet of paper. When I was born, my parents picked the first name at the top of the girls’ list: it was my aunt’s friend’s name, which she had put at the top right hand corner of the sheet of paper, like you would do when you submit a school assignment!
Tricia W says
FABRIC ME! Unfortunately no special significance to my name.
Casey says
FABRIC ME!
When I was young, I didn’t like my name because it could also be a boy’s name. But I like it now – it’s nice that not too many people have it.
Natalie F. says
FABRIC ME!
My name means Christmas Child or Birthday of Our Lord, which is really special to me because of my faith.
Britta says
FABRIC ME! I was named by my grandma. She names me after my great-great-great….grandma who was named Brita. It is a Swedish name.
Dan Goldstein says
Fabric Me!
My name is pretty generic, probably was picked out of a hat…
Pam says
“FABRIC ME!” My brother picked the name and mom and dad liked it. I always wished it was something else, but don’t tell them :)
Lindsay says
FABRIC ME!! I was totally named after the actress who played the Bionic Woman. :)
Lesley says
FABRIC ME! I was named after my Grandfather. Growing up, I hated it (what little girl wants a old man’s name?!?!?). But now I love that I share my name with him.
Monica Williams says
Fabric me!!! My mom says my name was chosen from General Hospital… my dad likes to joke it was a beer commercial. Classy, I know.
Beth says
FABRIC ME!
I think I am named after my great grandmother and my parents liked it.
Elizabeth says
FABRIC ME! My parents named me and my siblings with names from the Bible.
Tif says
FABRIC ME! My name is Tiffany and since my parents made stained glass together, they named me after Louis Comfort Tiffany. As a sidenote, my name means, “Seeker of Truth” and my husband’s (James) means, “Truthful One”. Coincidence? I think not!
Zi says
Fabric me!!
My full name is Keziah and it was my Great, Great Grandma’s name. I never met her but I like that the name is a family one. It got shortened to Zi when my little sister couldn’t say the full thing :)
Marissa says
FABRIC ME! I’m named after my Uncle Mervin. :)
Elaine says
FABRIC ME! My name is Elaine and my parents named me after watching the The Graduate.
Alison says
fabric me! I got my name as I was named after my aunt Alison as they thought she would not be able to have kids after multiple miscarriages. She ended up having 3 kids… We are very blessed to have a large family.
I am currently pregnant and I have to say it’s been hard coming up with names… I never thought it would be this challenging.
Ashley says
FABRIC ME!!
The only thing special about my name is how popular it was in the 80’s, so I always shared it with at least 2 other classmates growing up!
Ashley says
FABRIC ME!
There is no special meaning behind my name, my parents just liked it. My grandma did insist that my middle name have 7 letters instead of 6 because my first and last name were 6 letters. So my middle name is spelled Nichole. I wish I had changed my middle name to Nicole once I got married because it is often spelled wrong on legal documents.
Callie says
Fabric me! My real name is Carolyn, named for my Mom’s sister who died around the time I was born. When I was growing up my parents called me Carly, but when I was in 9th grade I decided to tell everyone I was now going to go by Callie…and it stuck! I like that I have a childhood name and an older name :)
Erica says
FABRIC ME! My name is the only one my parents could agree on.
Sara W. says
FABRIC ME!!! I wish my name had a really cool story other than my mom liked it. Now that my husband I are expecting we’re finding ourselves in a similar situation. Do we go with a name we just like or go with a family name we’re not super crazy about? I never thought that naming a baby would be so difficult.
Stacey says
Fabric Me! Please!
My name is fairly random – my parents just liked it and it fit their “rules” for naming – they decided that each name had to have two or more syllables, couldn’t be easily cutesy nicknamed and could not belong to anyone in the family history. I hated it when I was younger – I wished I could be Anastacia or something fancy, but now I dig it and I’d like to think I rock it!
Amanda says
FABRIC ME! My middle name, Kathleen, was picked after my mother’s best friend Kathleen passed away. My dad wanted a name to call me Kate, so it worked out well. Except they put Kathleen as my middle name and picked Amanda as my first only because it sounded good – it has no significance at all. And my dad doesn’t even call me Kate!
Victoria says
FABRIC ME! My name means victory. My parents thought of naming me Nikita but since I had a cousin Nicole they decided to name me Victoria. My middle name Dawn, I think is named after my mom’s friend. I was curious to see what the meaning of Nikita was, so I just searched and it means unconquered and is a nickname for Nicole which is derived from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. What a coincidence! Hope you liked my run on sentence. Pick me! I would love to get some great fabric for curtains!
emma says
FABRIC ME!!!!!
i was named emma for two of my great grandmothers… middle name is jo-lin for my dad (joe) & my mom (linda)…
wha-la!